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New Linux Vision That Involves btrfs

posted by LaminatorX on Monday September 01 2014, @09:04PM   Printer-friendly
from the puttering-about dept.

boteeka writes:

Phoronix has an article up about some interesting ideas of Lennart Poettering about what could be a possible future for Linux:

Lennart Poettering of systemd and PulseAudio fame has published a lengthy blog post that shares his vision for how he wishes to change how Linux software systems are put together to address a wide variety of issues. The Btrfs file-system and systemd play big roles with his new vision. Long story short, Lennart is trying to tackle how Linux distributions and software systems themselves are assembled to improve security, deal with the challenges of upstream software vendors integrating into many different distributions, and "the classic Linux distribution scheme is frequently not what end users want."

 
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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 01 2014, @09:38PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 01 2014, @09:38PM (#88204)

    "the classic Linux distribution scheme is frequently not what end users want."

    Err, it's worked for me for over 15 years. On my own machines I'd been happily running Arch for about 6 years and then along came the unholy, NIH, wheel reinventing clusterfuck that is systemd. So I'll go Lennart one better:

    "Poetterix is definitely not what end users want."

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  • (Score: 1) by Kunasou on Monday September 01 2014, @10:07PM

    by Kunasou (4148) on Monday September 01 2014, @10:07PM (#88212)

    If people didn't care about anything of Poettering, Linux would be a great place without systemd and pulseaudio (maybe somebody could make a better user audio daemon).

    • (Score: 2) by sjames on Monday September 01 2014, @10:40PM

      by sjames (2882) on Monday September 01 2014, @10:40PM (#88223) Journal

      I generally just kill pulseaudio entirely and let ALSA sort it out. It works great!

      • (Score: 2) by frojack on Monday September 01 2014, @11:41PM

        by frojack (1554) on Monday September 01 2014, @11:41PM (#88257) Journal

        Exactly, since Pulse depends on ALSA anyway.

        The days when ALSA couldn't handle more than one output device were over long before Pulse came along.

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